SHAFROTH, John Franklin, a Representative and a Senator from Colorado; born in Fayette, Mo.,
June 9, 1854; attended the common schools and graduated from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1875; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1876 and
commenced practice in Fayette, Mo.; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1879 and
continued the practice of law; city attorney 1887-1891; elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected as a Silver Republican to the
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses; presented credentials
as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-eighth Congress and served from March
4, 1895, until his resignation on February 15, 1904, when he declared his
conviction that his opponent, Robert W. Bonynge, had been duly elected;
Governor of Colorado 1908-1912; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate
for reelection; chairman, Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); Committee on the Philippines
(Sixty-fifth Congress); chairman of the War Minerals Relief Commission
1919-1921; died in Denver, Colo., February 20, 1922; interment in Fairmount
Cemetery.